Karl Valentin Quotes
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We strivin' for perfection.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.
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I don't think about the media.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
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Meanwhile, an even stranger and more radical transformation is under way. Having discovered subterranean reserves of energy, humans begin to change the composition of the atmosphere.
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I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
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Everything has already been said, but not yet by everyone.
